Face a challenge keeping track of statuses and making sure plans are up to date across multiple teams? We've got insights on making JIRA work for your organization; How do you best set it up for everyone to use; from the team on the ground through to the executive suite. Focusing two add-ons in particular - Portfolio and Structure for JIRA.
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Welcome – Sydney AUG
4. Trevor Vella
Trevor is currently the Development
Practice Manager at Transport for NSW
and has over 25 years of IT experience.
Day to day, he champions the
development and evolution of
continuous delivery capability and a
DevOps mentality throughout the
organisation.
Robin Scanlon
A Portfolio buff and Atlassian Expert.
He’s been consulting and training
people in the software world for 10
years, particularly in the project
management space. Originally from
Scotland, he now calls Sydney home,
and when not at work can be found
running or drinking wine.
Speakers
15. Story maps are about Saving the Story in
Agile Development
- JEFF PATTON
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16. Story aps fo us o u dersta di g usto ers’ o je tives
and jobs-to-be-done.
It’s not about generating stories or creating a release plan.
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Why Story Mapping?
Images courtesy Jeff Patton: User Story Mapping: Discover the whole story; build the right product.
17. People and Corporate Services | 17
Shared understanding and alignment are
objectives of collaborative work
Shared documentation != Shared Understanding
18. People and Corporate Services | 18
Communication & Feedback
Maintain the richest
communication
possible
29. Headline Features
Generate trip plans
Receive travel alerts
Download timetables
Live traffic information
Transport fare deals
Lost property
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Meet transportnsw.info
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Drilling into User Activities
Create issue hierarchies of arbitrary depth – these are all Epics!
Epic Type custo field helps to classify i JQL searches
Story maps solve one of the big problems with using user stories in agile development – that’s losing site of the big picture. Story maps look at a product or feature from the users’ perspective. Building a story map asks the story mapper to think through the experience of using the product from their users’ perspective. And, it turns out that solves a lot of problems with software development.
Story maps are a tool developed by Jeff Patton, User Story Mapping. As Patton states, “Your software has a backbone and a skeleton — and your map shows it.” Story maps help with planning and prioritising by visualizing the solution as a whole. Story mapping is not designed to generate stories or create a release plan — it is about understanding customers’ objectives and jobs-to-be-done. Story maps provide an effective means to communicate the narrative of our solution to engage the team and wider stakeholders and get their feedback. By going through story maps and telling the story of the solution, we ensure that we have not missed any major components. At the same time, we maximise learning by identifying the next riskiest hypothesis to test while minimising waste and over engineered solutions that do not fit customer needs as defined in our MVP.
This in turn leads to a better sense of purpose during the design, and keeps the mind of everyone from the analyst to the developer on the big picture.
This deeper understanding of design motivation will help a delivery team feel in creative control for a project, and helps facilitate innovation at every stage of the project.
Physical walls look great, but now we need some kind of backup for falling post-it’s
The best way we can talk through our usage of JIRA structure is to walk you through one of our current projects!
Meet transportnsw.info, our poster child for the evening. We’ll be taking a look through the project structure and how it supports some of the core Story Mapping concepts.
Bit of trivia… there are almost 1300 issues summarised in the picture above! Imagine trying to corral that on a physical wall board!
Structure can span multiple custom workflows comfortably – just define what each status means to the delivery team as a high level completion percentage and you’re good to go! If your decomposition is not reasonably homogenous, you can weight an issues contribution to the ‘roll-up’ by it’s story point or time estimate value.
Every issue all the way down to the bottom will show it’s place in the chain up to high-value ‘Big Features’. This helps keep everyone’s mind on the ultimate goal they are trying to accomplish, and encourages implementers to think about how they are meeting the actual user goal at every phase of the development process.
**For the ‘Thank you’ slide, simply choose the same master slide as the intro card and delete the subtitle (unless you need it for good reason).